Mike Tate Quotations

She hit her spots, like we worked on all winter. She only missed two spots the whole game, and that was a key to keeping them off the scoreboard.

I would expect the other side to do so as well.

People are concerned. They don't want the wrong sort of facility just slid in under the door and they don't like the sort of sneaky underhanded way they tried to do it. So that's made everybody really nervous.

Our biggest job is to educate the electorate.

We have volunteers coming in a couple nights a week already to be making phone calls and talking to voters.

Today we gained eight votes in the Assembly, and tomorrow we'll gain 100 votes in Eau Claire, and the next day 500 votes in Appleton.

They took us out of the game with some nice defensive plays. No doubt about it.

They put out invitations to the five of us, they never came back to say they wouldn't be showing up. So that was another concern that they dealt with it that way.

Although we were able to gain votes, we have always anticipated the legislature would ultimately pass the ban. That's why Action Wisconsin and Center Advocates have focused on educating tens of thousands of voters for the past 600 days. As the official statewide campaign, Fair Wisconsin will build off that foundation and run a serious campaign to win in November.

There's been a tremendous amount of good work done already. And the next 251 days are about getting out and talking with every Wisconsin voter about why this would harm them and their community.

It's an appeal to fairness. It's an appeal to this isn't the role of government. There's lots of different ways we're going to be talking about this amendment.

Gay marriage is already illegal. The ban would sort of double-ban gay marriage. But beyond that, it would prevent Wisconsin from ever having civil unions. It would jeopardize public and private employers from offering domestic partner benefits. I think people are going to ask the question, is this the role of government?